People online talk so much about the need for affordable, small-footprint, community focused housing that goes against conventional zoning laws. Well, they’ve literally just described a trailer park, but those same people will use the term as a classist insult.
Not a whole lot to expand upon here, but if there are any good counterpoints or questions in the replies, I’ll respond there or edit my post body.
Basically, the depreciation of a trailer over time and the large expense to replace it places a massive insurmountable burden on the person long term. The same housing expense for on-site construction is a long term investment with equity that lifts people out of a poverty cycle. The exploitation schemes regarding land use are often institutionalized where trailers are only permitted inside zoned land, and there is no zoned land that can be purchased outright. This is then used to exploit the poor folks that have no choice but to pay their abusive feudal overlord for whatever whimsical excuse they use to hike land rent to pay for their second Ferrari through privateering.